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September 13, 2020
September 12, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: How the Government is wading into the swamp of despotism ��� one muzzle at a time
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
The Government has no legal right to impose the severe and miserable restrictions on our lives with which it has wrecked the economy, brought needless grief to the bereaved and the lonely and destroyed our personal liberty.
This is the verdict of one of the most distinguished lawyers in the country, the retired Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption.
He said last week in a podcast interview: ���I don���t myself believe that the Act confers on the Go...
My last review for 'First Things' , written and proofed before they tried to censor me and we parted company
It is about Vasily Grossman's novel 'Stalingrad'
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/bookings-to-utopia
September 8, 2020
My latest conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio (7th September 2020)
I am aware of the problems with the sound and hope to fix them before next week's meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnfan7Rhztc&feature=youtu.be
September 5, 2020
Our Parliament is a Dead Parrot. Write now and ask your MPs what they are being paid for, since they are not doing their jobs
This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column
We have ceased to be a parliamentary democracy. There was no military putsch. Nobody passed an Enabling Act allowing rule by decree. But the House of Lords and the House of Commons are now the Dead Parrot Parliament.
They are dead because they do nothing to hold the Government to account. They are parrots because, when asked, they obediently confirm decrees Downing Street put into effect, sometimes weeks before. We used to jeer that the so-call...
PETER HITCHENS: Protest against our new State of Fear is banned... by order of a Dead Parrot Parliament
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
We have ceased to be a parliamentary democracy. There was no military putsch. Nobody passed an Enabling Act allowing rule by decree. But the House of Lords and the House of Commons are now the Dead Parrot Parliament.
They are dead because they do nothing to hold the Government to account. They are parrots because, when asked, they obediently confirm decrees Downing Street put into effect, sometimes weeks before. We used to jeer that the so-calle...
September 2, 2020
More (sorry about poor video quality but sound OK) from Sunday night's press preview on Sky News
Fascinating to hear Gillian Joseph's incredulous, amazed reaction (at the end ) to my use of the word 'muzzles' . I'd wager that, depsite working in the news business, she had not heard it before.
September 1, 2020
August 31, 2020
Please Protest against the Censorship of 'First Things' Magazine @FirstThingsMag
How 'First Things' magazine tried to censor me
For some years I have written occasionally for a thoughtful American magazine called First Things. Last week, they asked me to censor what I had written. They said: 'We are trying to be slightly less critical of the lockdown measures on the site these days (though criticism is of course warranted), so we've made a few changes to the final paragraphs.
'The First Things board has concerns about some of the pieces we have published on Covid. They ha...
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